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Model description paper
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26 Aug 2021
Model description paper |
| 26 Aug 2021
| 26 Aug 2021
The Community Inversion Framework v1.0: a unified system for atmospheric inversion studies
Antoine Berchet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Espen Sollum
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway
Rona L. Thompson
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway
Isabelle Pison
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Joël Thanwerdas
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Grégoire Broquet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Frédéric Chevallier
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Tuula Aalto
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Helsinki, Finland
Adrien Berchet
Institut Pprime (UPR 3346, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA), Bat H2, 11 Boulevard Marie et Pierre Curie, TSA 51124, 86073, Poitiers CEDEX 9, France
Peter Bergamaschi
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Varese, Italy
Dominik Brunner
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Dübendorf, Switzerland
Richard Engelen
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, RG2 9AX, UK
Audrey Fortems-Cheiney
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Christoph Gerbig
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway
Jean-Matthieu Haussaire
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Dübendorf, Switzerland
Stephan Henne
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Dübendorf, Switzerland
Sander Houweling
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ute Karstens
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Werner L. Kutsch
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS-ERIC), Helsinki, Finland
Ingrid T. Luijkx
Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Guillaume Monteil
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Paul I. Palmer
School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, UK
Jacob C. A. van Peet
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Wouter Peters
Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Philippe Peylin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Elise Potier
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Christian Rödenbeck
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Marielle Saunois
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Marko Scholze
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Aki Tsuruta
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Helsinki, Finland
Yuanhong Zhao
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Short summary
We present here the Community Inversion Framework (CIF) to help rationalize development efforts and leverage the strengths of individual inversion systems into a comprehensive framework. The CIF is a programming protocol to allow various inversion bricks to be exchanged among researchers.
The ensemble of bricks makes a flexible, transparent and open-source Python-based tool. We describe the main structure and functionalities and demonstrate it in a simple academic case.
We present here the Community Inversion Framework (CIF) to help rationalize development efforts...
